26.09.2011                      27.Elul, 5771

Umwelt:

Israeli, Palestinian experts meet over water agreements

Calling Oslo Accords ‘outdated,’ green group hopes to bring new solution to regional resource sharing.

For both Gidon Bromberg and Nader Khateeb, having a clean and ample supply of water far outweighs the stringencies posed by political borders.
Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian representatives took part Sunday in the first day of a two-day Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) workshop in Beit Jala, to revise and make plans for the implementation of a “Model Water Accord” proposed by the green group, a statement from the team said.
The Model Water Accord, drafted in November 2010, provides a potential structure for the Israeli and Palestinian water-sharing future and attempts to update a current system that is “outdated, inadequate, unfair and failing both peoples,” the organization said….